I love film
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peterbirksBecause I was catching up with a number of movies I had recorded off-air I was lax in watching my Lovefilm-supplied "The Guard" (2011), starring Brendan Gleason and Don Cheadle. It's a pleasant-enough film -- indeed, perfect for a weekday night when I don;t want to tax the brain too much. Gleason is top notch, Cheadle is good, the support cast is fine. There are some fun little ideas -- the drug-smugglers discussing Nietzche being particularly enjoyable.
It's one of those nice low-budget movies that come out of the British Isles every so often and which occasionally sparkle like "Gregory's Girl". "The Guard" is not that good, but it is definitely great fun.
Anyhoo, Lovefilm, clearly concerned that I had died, appears to have an interesting marketing strategy if you hang on to a movie for too long. Do they send you a gentle reminder? No. Well, they do, but what they also do is just send you another film anyway. This is brilliant. You feel grateful to Lovefilm for not hassling you, and you make the effort to watch the film if you still have it. If you've lost it, well, Lovefilm writes it off (presumably they accept a loss rate of about 5% or thereabouts) at least the first time.
So I made the effort and I sent it back, with another film ("The Tree Of Life") arriving the same day. That, I assumed, would get me back on track. But, no. Lovefilm has sent me another film, so now I appear to be on a two films at a time sequence rather than one.
The second film is the legendary "Man With A Movie Camera" (Russia, 1929) with, I suspect, the Michael Nyman score. With silent films the accompanying score is almost as important as the film itself.
Roger Ebert appears to have "Tree of Life" in his list of top 10-ever movies, which is interesting, given the mixed reviews that it has received. I watched about 10 minutes on a plane, but quickly realized that the film demanded a bigger screen.
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I managed to end April in front on the tables. I played the UKIP league, which was lucky, because Stars has dropped it for three months. Nearly every night was an overlay, not even counting the league prisze at the end.
I've also been puttion 20FPP a night into the turbos kicking off at 7.05pm. A couple of good results there gave me a $104 return on the month for those, but I won't get many nights of third out of 4,600. I'm targeting 6¢ per FPP for the year on those tournaments (plus the Saturday night 100FPP tourney). April was 920 FPPs for $104, or 10.7¢ an FPP or thereabouts.
The Cash games are just a perpetual struggle -- where the main enemy is just beating the rake, because there are so few fish around. Weekends are where you can pick up profit in actual open play. During the week it's just a matter of building up FPPs and Stellar Reward levels.
The "Road to 80bn hands" and a reload bonus because of SCOOP are all adding to effective rakeback. It's hard to work out how much that rakeback is. The reload bonus is averaging out at 19%. (a cent a hand or about two bucks an hour) The bonuses on hands appear to give me (six-tabling) something like a 1-in-2,000 chance every hour of hitting for an average of about $500. So that's a mere 25 cents an hour or .1 of a cent a hand. The stellar rewards are probably about 10 cents an hour. And there's the FPPs, which would "nominally" be $6 an hour, but that entails playing in tournaments to win it. That halves the return to about $3 an hour.
So that pushes the current rakeback to about $6 an hour out of an average of $10 an hour rake. 60%. If you just take cash for the FPPS it cuts to about 40%. Still quite respectable.
But when the SCOOP bonus expires (after just 30 days!) the rakeback reduces to $3 to $4 per $10 paid in rake.
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It's one of those nice low-budget movies that come out of the British Isles every so often and which occasionally sparkle like "Gregory's Girl". "The Guard" is not that good, but it is definitely great fun.
Anyhoo, Lovefilm, clearly concerned that I had died, appears to have an interesting marketing strategy if you hang on to a movie for too long. Do they send you a gentle reminder? No. Well, they do, but what they also do is just send you another film anyway. This is brilliant. You feel grateful to Lovefilm for not hassling you, and you make the effort to watch the film if you still have it. If you've lost it, well, Lovefilm writes it off (presumably they accept a loss rate of about 5% or thereabouts) at least the first time.
So I made the effort and I sent it back, with another film ("The Tree Of Life") arriving the same day. That, I assumed, would get me back on track. But, no. Lovefilm has sent me another film, so now I appear to be on a two films at a time sequence rather than one.
The second film is the legendary "Man With A Movie Camera" (Russia, 1929) with, I suspect, the Michael Nyman score. With silent films the accompanying score is almost as important as the film itself.
Roger Ebert appears to have "Tree of Life" in his list of top 10-ever movies, which is interesting, given the mixed reviews that it has received. I watched about 10 minutes on a plane, but quickly realized that the film demanded a bigger screen.
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I managed to end April in front on the tables. I played the UKIP league, which was lucky, because Stars has dropped it for three months. Nearly every night was an overlay, not even counting the league prisze at the end.
I've also been puttion 20FPP a night into the turbos kicking off at 7.05pm. A couple of good results there gave me a $104 return on the month for those, but I won't get many nights of third out of 4,600. I'm targeting 6¢ per FPP for the year on those tournaments (plus the Saturday night 100FPP tourney). April was 920 FPPs for $104, or 10.7¢ an FPP or thereabouts.
The Cash games are just a perpetual struggle -- where the main enemy is just beating the rake, because there are so few fish around. Weekends are where you can pick up profit in actual open play. During the week it's just a matter of building up FPPs and Stellar Reward levels.
The "Road to 80bn hands" and a reload bonus because of SCOOP are all adding to effective rakeback. It's hard to work out how much that rakeback is. The reload bonus is averaging out at 19%. (a cent a hand or about two bucks an hour) The bonuses on hands appear to give me (six-tabling) something like a 1-in-2,000 chance every hour of hitting for an average of about $500. So that's a mere 25 cents an hour or .1 of a cent a hand. The stellar rewards are probably about 10 cents an hour. And there's the FPPs, which would "nominally" be $6 an hour, but that entails playing in tournaments to win it. That halves the return to about $3 an hour.
So that pushes the current rakeback to about $6 an hour out of an average of $10 an hour rake. 60%. If you just take cash for the FPPS it cuts to about 40%. Still quite respectable.
But when the SCOOP bonus expires (after just 30 days!) the rakeback reduces to $3 to $4 per $10 paid in rake.
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Date: 2012-05-09 08:53 pm (UTC)Brian
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Date: 2012-05-10 07:32 am (UTC)PJ
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Date: 2012-05-24 01:42 pm (UTC)Cheers, Niall L
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Date: 2012-05-24 02:25 pm (UTC)I still have the required number of envelopes. I think that you can use any envelope if you want.